Johann Zarco was once again in impressive form aboard his Team JiR MotoBI today during qualifying for tomorrow's Portuguese Moto2 race.
The 21-year-old just missed out on a front-row start in just his third competitive outing on the four-stroke Moto2 machine, but will start tomorrow's race in a superb fourth place on the grid, just a third of a second down on pole-sitter Marc Marquez.
Zarco was always near the top of the timing sheets and took second place behind pace-setter Marquez with 18 minutes of the session still to run, but then he suffered a small crash with ten minutes to go and had to re-start his machine and get back to the pits. In the meantime the Team JiR rider had been bumped down to third and – despite rejoining the session – he was finally knocked off the front-row of the grid in the dying seconds of qualifying when Scott Redding took third place.
Despite this, today has been another very positive showing for the Frenchman, who is adapting well to the four-stroke MotoBI machine. Both team and rider are now looking forward to tomorrow's race.
JiR Moto2 Press Release
